in den Kulturwissenschaften

Digitalization in the anthropocene: A digital environmental history since the mid 20th Century

Digital technologies are seen as climate-friendly, in some cases even as climate saviours. In contrast to smoking factory chimneys, data centres, for example, appear to be low-emission, quiet and clean. The metaphor of the cloud suggests a cloudy, non-physicality. However, if you look behind the shiny surfaces of servers and screens, the entire ...

Duration: 01/2024 - 12/2030

Digital Divide among students through artificial intelligence

At the latest with ChatGPT, large language models and tools based on them (AI tools) have found their way into universities. Students use AI tools for brainstorming, writing, proofreading and research. As with the introduction of other information and communication technologies (ICT), it is to be expected that there will be differences in the use, ...

Duration: 01/2024 - 12/2025

BeneluxNet

Prozesse von Kulturtransfer bzw. -verflechtung und die sie untersuchenden Studien unterliegen aufgrund umfassender gesellschaftlicher Digitalisierungsprozesse großen Herausforderungen. Durch die Erarbeitung einer auf Kulturvermittlung zielenden digitalen Plattform kann ein wichtiger Beitrag in diesem Bereich geleistet werden, der neben digitaler ...

Duration: 01/2024 - 12/2026

Bundesweite Festivalstudie

Das Forschungszentrum „C:POP. Transdisciplinary Research Center for Popular Music Cultures and Creative Economies“ der Universität Paderborn zieht sich als wissenschaftlicher Vertragspartner aus der Festivalstudie der Initiative Musik (mit der Bundesstiftung LiveKultur und dem Deutschen Musikinformationszentrum) zurück. Die bisher geleisteten ...

Duration: 11/2023 - 08/2024

Funded by: BKM

L:IKE - Intangible cultural heritage learning workshop for school education in NRW

On behalf of the Ministry of Culture and Science of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Chair for Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage is researching how intangible cultural heritage can be taught, discussed and reflected on from different subject perspectives in school lessons.In dialogue with the Ministry of Schools and ...

Duration: 11/2023 - 12/2025

Funded by: MKW NRW

Contact: Jonas Leineweber

Administrative project (Z)

The general administrative Project Z will contribute to the success of the TRR in three ways: First, it will administer both the budgeting and organization of the TRR. Second, it will co-organize the TRR workshops and conferences. Third, it will monitor the TRR’s output and evaluate the efficiency of its internal structure, also with regard to the ...

Duration: 07/2021 - 06/2025

Funded by: DFG

NFDI4Culture – Consortium für Research Data on Material and Immaterial Cultural Heritage

We establish a needs-based infrastructure for research data ranging from architecture, art history and musicology to theatre, dance, film and media studies. NFDI4Culture is a part of the National Research Data Infrastructure NFDI.

Duration: 09/2020 - 08/2025

Funded by: DFG

Contact: Daniel Röwenstrunk, Prof. Dr. Andreas Münzmay

The right to conquer - Legitimising Conquests in the early and high Middle Ages

Conquests required legitimation. This project aims to show that this is also true for the earlier Middle Ages (c. 500 - c. 1150), thus refuting the prevailing scholarly views on this issue. By demonstrating that the military expansion of rule required justification this work is poised to make significant contributions to the study of the concept of ...

Duration: 01/2019 - 12/2025

Funded by: DFG

International Cultural History of Tax Morale

The project investigates discourses about (honest) tax payment behaviour in different societies (West Germany, Spain, and the USA) between the 1940s and the 1980s. The aim is to analyse the change of norms of tax payment behaviour.

Duration: 03/2018 - 12/2025

Funded by: DFG

Contact: Annette Zaloudek, Prof. Dr. Korinna Schönhärl

Resistance against foreign rulers in the high and late Middle Ages. On ethnic and nationall identity formation in medieval conflicts

The primary aim of the project is to systematically analyse resistance to foreign rulers and thus the effects of foreign rule in the high and late Middle Ages by means of a comprehensive comparison of individual conflicts and to identify the conditions under which foreign rule productively promoted the formation of new identities. On this basis, it ...

Duration: 08/2011 - 12/2026

Funded by: DFG

Sprachliche Teilhabe in der Pflegeausbildung stärken (STePs) – schulische und pflegerische Praxis als Lerngelegenheit

STePs verfolgt als interdisziplinäres Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojekt der Pflege- und Deutsch-als-Zweitsprache-Forschung/-Didaktik das Ziel, die sprachliche Teilhabe insbesondere migrationsbedingt mehrsprachiger Pflegeauszubildender an den Lernorten Schule und Praxis zu stärken, um erfolgreiche Ausbildungsverläufe zu ermöglichen. Hintergrund ...

Duration: 10/2022 - 09/2025

Funded by: BMBF

Knowledge transfer to and from quality management of teaching & learning at universities (WiaQM)

Knowledge production is considered a complex process that takes place under uncertainty and requires a high tolerance for ambiguity. This is especially true for quality management (QM) at universities, where research, teaching and administration, i.e. organizational areas with diverging functional logics, have to work closely together. The ...

Duration: 07/2022 - 06/2025

Funded by: BMBF

Meaningful Human Control - Autonomous Weapon Systems between Regulation and Reflexion

The development and application of autonomous weapons systems (AWS) is one of the most pressing problems of international security and peace. Stakeholders from politics, civil society, military, science and academia are debating controversially whether and to what extent the expansion of AI-based mechanized autonomy threatens a loss of human ...

Duration: 04/2022 - 03/2026

Funded by: BMBF

Papstherrschaft im Raumentwurf: Die Architekturbücher Domenico Fontanas (1543–1607) und das Rom Sixtus’ V.

Wer zur allgemeinen Geschichte des europäischen Städtebaus bzw. zur römischen Stadtgeschichte am Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts im Speziellen forscht, kommt sowohl an Domenico Fontana (1543–1607) als auch an dessen Architekturbüchern (1590, 1604) nicht vorbei.Bereits in ihrer Konzeption und Ausführung stellen die zwei Bände der Trasportatione ...

Duration: 01/2021 - 12/2025

Funded by: BMBF

International Computer and Information Literacy Study 2023

Mit der international vergleichenden Schulleistungsstudie ICILS 2023 (International Computer and Information Literacy Study 2023) realisiert die IEA (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement) nach ICILS 2013 und ICILS 2018 den dritten Zyklus der Studie ICILS. Mithilfe eines international entwickelten und elaborierten ...

Duration: 01/2021 - 12/2026

Funded by: BMBF

SANDD Sub-Saharan Africa DaF digital network

With partners in Augsburg, Kara, Windhoek and Namibia, the project team in the field of German as a Second and Foreign Language at Paderborn University tackles various topics in research and teacher education relating to German as a Foreign Language and the professionalization of German teachers in sub-Saharan Africa.

Duration: 05/2024 - 12/2026

Funded by: DAAD

German Studies Partnership Pader-Akdeniz-Marmara

The partnership between Paderborn University, Akdeniz University Antalya and Marmara University Istanbul in the field of German studies focuses on joint research in the areas of education for sustainable development, global citizen education and tourism from the perspectives of literary studies, linguistics, cultural studies and didactics, with ...

Duration: 01/2024 - 12/2026

Funded by: DAAD

Vielfalt und kulturelles Erbe der Peripherie: Regionale u. orale Kulturen Tunesiens, Marokkos u. Deutschlands – Aufbau eines Netzwerks zwischen universitären u. zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteuren der betreffenden Regionen zur Etablierung eines Forschungsprojekts

Vielfalt und kulturelles Erbe der Peripherie: Regionale und orale Kulturen Tunesiens, Marokkos und Deutschlands – Aufbau eines Netzwerks zwischen universitären und zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteuren der betreffenden Regionen zur Etablierung eines gemeinsamen ForschungsprojektsDas Projekt Vielfalt und kulturelles Erbe der Peripherie: Regionale und ...

Duration: 04/2023 - 12/2025

Funded by: DAAD

Federal State Office for Intangible Cultural Heritage, North Rhine-Westphalia

Intangible cultural heritage includes customs, rituals, festivities, performing arts, oral expressions, knowledge and skills that are passed down from generation to generation and evoke feelings of identity, continuity and community. In 2013, the Federal Republic of Germany ratified the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible ...

Duration: 12/2015 - 12/2024

Funded by: MKW NRW

Contact: Jonas Leineweber

NRW Research College Work 4.0: Design of flexible working environments - People-centered use of cyber-physical systems in Industry 4.0

For production companies, the transition to Industry 4.0 opens up great opportunities for modernization and the associated increase in the efficiency of production processes. In addition to the still largely existing technical challenges involved in developing such systems, the role of employees throughout the entire value chain is undergoing ...

Duration: 08/2014 - 12/2022

Funded by: MKW NRW

Contact: Prof. Dr. Gregor Engels, Prof. Dr. Martin Schneider, Prof. Dr. Eckhard Steffen, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Roman Dumitrescu, Prof. Dr. Christian Harteis, Prof. Dr. Iris Gräßler, Prof. Dr. Eric Bodden, Anja-Kristin Abendroth, Martin Diewald, Stefan Kopp, Günter W. Maier, Frank Ulrich Rückert, Britta Wrede